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🕵️♀️ 💵 Carried Interest, Scam Detection, Cash Traps
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Hey investors & entrepreneurs, here's the good stuff this week:
For the Investor🤑 The Fundamentals of Carried Interest - Carried interest lets fund managers take (usually) 20% of profits after investors get paid back. Since they invest less but take a big cut, their returns can be huge. Some funds make them wait, others pay them sooner - both can be good or really suck depending on how the fund plays out. 🤑 Scams, Damn Scams, and Investors - Investment scams thrive on bad charts, cherry-picked wins, and fake high-yield promises. If you don’t know where the returns come from, you’re probably the payout. 🤑 Impact of Currency Translation and Hedging on Portfolio Risk - Hedging currency risk doesn’t always lower portfolio risk. If the unhedged portfolio is already less volatile, hedging can actually make it worse. It all comes down to how the foreign asset moves with exchange rates. 🤑 Portfolio diversification: Why cash isn't king - Hiding in cash might feel safe, but history says otherwise. Whether the economy grows, slows, or stumbles into stagflation, cash is likely to underperform a well-diversified portfolio. 🤑 Return on Equity, Earnings Yield and Market Efficiency: Back to Basics! - Return on equity measures business quality, but accounting quirks can distort it. Market efficiency means prices reflect expected returns, not that all firms earn their cost of equity. Blindly buying low price-to-book stocks often leads to owning bad businesses, not bargains. For the Entrepreneur🤑 YouTube SEO Study Reveals Keyword Cannibalization Is Actually A Good Thing - YouTube doesn’t penalize keyword cannibalization, so uploading multiple videos targeting the same keyword might actually boost rankings. Shorter videos tend to perform better because attention spans are shot, and nearly all top-ranking videos have transcripts, helping with relevance. 🤑 Blinded by Success: How Obsessive Goal-Setting Can Backfire in Finance and Beyond - Ambition is great until it turns into burnout or bad decisions just to hit a number. Real success means balancing drive with well-being and integrity. 🤑 Pure Independence - Real independence isn’t just money—it’s thinking for yourself and not chasing approval. Many who claim freedom are still trapped by validation, tribal thinking, or work they hate. 🤑 Entrepreneurs Must Think Bigger to ‘Build Where the Billions Are’ - Entrepreneurs keep chasing niche markets. Investors and founders willing to take big swings in the green economy could tap into a trillion-dollar opportunity. 🤑 Out of Pocket - Slack going down for a few hours was a rare moment of forced silence, a reminder of how deeply we’re hooked on constant connectivity. The endless stream of notifications chops our attention into tiny, useless fragments, making deep work nearly impossible.
Lyn Alden joins The Investor’s Podcast to break down fiscal dominance—a major shift in how money moves through the economy. She explains why the S&P 500 is soaring despite high interest rates, how big tech keeps winning, and why the U.S. economy is starting to look more like an emerging market. They also dive into global liquidity, inflation, and smart ways to invest in this new reality. If you want a clearer picture of what’s really driving markets, this one’s worth a listen.
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Welcome to Investing.io. This is the place for entrepreneurs and investors who think beyond normal. We started this newsletter because traditional resources didn’t quite meet the needs of entrepreneurial investors—those who view investments as extensions of their own ventures and values. Each week, we explore small business acquisitions, micro private equity, and smart personal finance strategies. No hot stock tips or market noise, just straightforward insights and updates to help you make informed decisions.
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